Last week we were offered some winemaking kit - lots of it - by a nice old chap called Ron. He had given up winemaking years ago and all his kit was stacked up in his loft doing nothing. We were very grateful for it!
I can't list everything, but among the items were:
7 or 8 buckets (up to 5 gallon)
17 demijohns
dozens of bottles
fermenting cabinet (for 3 demijohns)
5 or 6 immersible heaters
2 filters
loads of tubing, bungs, airlocks, corks, 2 corking machines
loads of campden tablets and sterilising solution
and more ....
The car was full!
We had a bit of a sort out when we got home. We now have 1 bucket with all our main kit, the things we'll use regularly, like one tube, hydrometer, airlocks, yeasts, chemicals etc. We have another bucket with spare kit that we won't normally need. The filter kit is now in a 3rd bucket and the bottling / corking equipment is in a 4th bucket.
Also in the kit he gave us were his winemaking logs from years ago - some records were from back in the 1960's! The missus loves these and we're going to look after them and maybe follow some of the recipes.
To say thanks, we'll be dropping some wine off to Ron sometime soon. It would be nice to send him some homebrew, although we don't want to risk delivering something that turns out to be undrinkable, so we might buy some instead ....
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